Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) and the CARE Learning Tour delegation visits the home of an urban refugee family living in East Amman, Jordan. The family fled Syria in January 2013 and the 5 kids haven’t attended school since for a variety of reasons, including fear and tension from the local community towards Syrian refugees.

Maream Ramdah lost one of her sons in Syria due to the fighting. Mahmoud Abdalla, her surviving teenage son, is the only one working to support the entire family of 11 children and two parents. None of the kids have ever been to school.

The Learing Tour delegation traveled to the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan. They met with Aoife McDonnell of the World Food Programme, who briefed them on the current state of refugees within the camp.

The Learning Tour delegation met a Syrian refugee family living in a tent in the desert 5 miles from the border. They used the money CARE gave them to build a tent for their kitchen. Thirty people live on the vacant land located behind an orchard.